Tentative Schedule

OSCAR MICHEAUX GOLDEN ANNIVERSARY MEMORIAL CELEBRATION
Great Bend, Kansas

Crest Theatre

March 24 and 25, 2001

Tentative Schedule as of 3:54 pm on May 17, 2008
All Events Free Unless Otherwise Indicated

Saturday, March 24, 2001
  9:00 a.m. Welcome by local dignitaries
Emcee: Karen Guliford
9:15 a.m. Showing of the documentary “Midnight Ramble: Oscar Micheaux and the Story of Race Movies” (1994)
10:15 a.m. Pearl Bowser, co-producer of “Midnight Ramble”. Questions & Answers about “Midnight Ramble”.
11:00 a.m. Showing of Oscar Micheaux film “Within Our Gates” (1919)
12:00 m. Lunch at the Elks Club ($9.00 per person)
1:00 p.m. Pearl Bowser comments on “Within Our Gates”, and leads a panel discussion regarding the film
1:30 p.m. Professor Charlene Regester, University of North Carolina — presentation on Kansas-born Hattie McDaniel: “The black voice in a white body: Hattie McDaniel becomes the disembodied voice of Vivien Lee in 'Gone With The Wind' ”
2:15 p.m. Professor J. Ronald Green, Ohio State University, author of “Straight Lick: The Cinema of Oscar Micheaux”
3:00 p.m. break
3:15 p.m. Professor James Leiker, St. Cloud State University: “In Their Own Words: Memories and Memoirs of African-Americans in the West”
4:00 p.m. Angela Bates-Tompkins, President, Nicodemus Historical Society: “Black Migration to the West.”
4:30 p.m. Eric Monder, author and film critic, New York City, “The Lost Films of Oscar Micheaux”
5:00 p.m. Betti Carol Van Epps Taylor, author of Oscar Micheaux … Dakota Homesteader, Author, Pioneer Film Maker: A Biography (1999) “Lonely Pioneer: Oscar Micheaux and the Great Northwest”
The death of her father has forced her to cancel this appearance.
7:30 p.m. An evening with James McDaniel, N.Y.P.D. Blue ($5.00 admission)
Sunday, March 25, 2001
 
9:30 a.m. Gospel Song Fest at the Crest Theatre
1:00 p.m. Wreath Laying, Great Bend Cemetery including the Buffalo Soldiers and remarks by Senator David Haley
2:15 p.m. "The book Roots and the Haley family." Senator David Haley at the Crest Theatre
2:30 p.m. Professor Charles Berg, University of Kansas: “Oscar Micheaux and Coming of Sound”
3:10 p.m. Professor Richard Grupenhoff, Rowan University — “One Step Ahead: Oscar Micheaux and the Censors”
3:40 p.m. break
4:00 p.m. Professor Jane Gaines, Duke University: “Man of a Thousand Faces: Noble Johnson and the Lincoln Motion Picture Company”
4:40 p.m. Kevin Willmott, independent filmmaker: “Challenges Facing the Independent Filmmaker Today”
7:00 p.m. Golden Belt Country Club:
“The Other Oscars” 73rd Annual Academy Awards ($15.00 admission / $10.00 for students)